The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-22
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In the Wilmington Star, of the 18t
inst, l notice, copied from contempora
ry, some remarks of Rev. DR.. Hawthorne
in which the distinguished D. D., afte
giving the words of his text, proceeds t.
observe: ''They are taken from the Bibl
........ This minuteness of statement i
REQUIRED, to prevent my anonymous Sian
derers from charging me with plagiarism.
This reminds me very forcibly of the repl,
of the late has. OConnor of deathles
memory, " hcn. Oh certain occasion, a.
Daniel Lord, Jr.. entered the court, som,
friend of Mr.. O'C's inquired, "who is tha
distinguished Looking gentlemanY That,
said Mr.. O'Connor, lis Daniel Lord, JUN
IoR and he has Junior put after his name
to distinguish him from the Almighty"
Yesterday, most intelligent anC
thoughtful lady was repeating to me, with
great emphasis and solemnity, those words
of the Scripture, Every idle word thai
men shall speak, they shall give an account
thereof in the day OF Judgment" ! replied
in the words of Thomas Gibson Bowles
Master Mariner" in his FLOTsAM AM
JETsAM, THAT is not to say that men are
never to speak idle words, but that they
will have to show that the occasion was
such as demanded no Others You and I,
and insignificant people in general, may
upon insignificant occasions BE- as Idle as
W6 please, but not SO tnCsa VINO assume tC
be teachers and leaders OF men,
Bowles, by the way, iii his FLoTsAM AMI
JETsAM, has given us Il companion sug-
gestion to Carlyl les famous inquiry: "Tnese
fringes of London City lamplight, strug-
Cling up tll ,ngl smoke and thousand fold
axhalation, some fatlioms into the ancient
reign Of Night, what thinks Bootes of
them, as he leads his hunting-dogs over
the Zenith in their leash of sidereal fire.
Suggests Mariner Bowles, S'Possibly, at
this very moment, some mariner, sailing
over the seas of the pole-star, is taxing an
observation of this planet of ours, fIGUH-
HIND LEI, OF D0NkEY.H
=
How old is the vulgar expression, or
soBRIoUEr, ''Stuck-in the Mud" applied
to tardy person. Have | discovered its
origin. while pursuing the steps of its IN
ventor as ne sought TO discover the secrets
of the fair Limpopo. capt. K. Gordon
Cumming, in his thrillingly interesting his
tory of his HUNTERS LIFE IN SOUTH AFRI-
CA, says that on one OCCASION. while up
hraiding his afterrt Ter, Carey, for his
customary extreme leisurel mess OF motion,
''he swore stoutly that he had stuck in
the mud as we had to cross bog below
the fountain in running for the spot.
thought this was good, and | said to my
self, 4 have got name for you at last. ;"
Throughout the rest of the book Captain
Cumming refers to Carey as ''Old Stuck
in-the- Mud"
The recent newspaper reports of the
proceedings of the International Medical
Convention at Washington City recalls to
me mental reflection which has often
occurred to me before: At this Congress
were doubtless convened number of
learned gentlemen, fully as distinguished,
and as we'll known, To THEIR PROFESSION,
as the illustrious WARRIORS, STATESMEN,
advocates and pulpit orators who have
made the world, for the last half century,
resound with their deeds and words. They
had achieved far MORE for humanity than
many of the orators, statesmen EFT GET.
who have outstripped them in the race for
fame. Yet, save among their professional
brethren, their COMPARATIVE eminenCe was
scarcely known. For instance from North
Carolina, went one who, to my PERSONAL
knowledge, oorIohorated by the unanimous
voice of the State, was the peer of the
greatest there. | refer to DIR. CHARLES
JAMES O'HAGAN, who, if he had been some
epauletted MAKER of widows and coadju
tant of Death, would have been hailed with
acclaims, but as he was merely an humble
drier of widows tears and cheerer of or
phan hearts, restoring by his skill what
their affections had left to dote on, he
shared, of course, the fate of so many
illustrious members of his noble calling
who, for want of some patient of distin-
guished name to exalt them to temporary
notoriety have found lasting fame only
among their apprcciative brethren. This
is an evil which l have seen, and it is alto
gether too common under the sun. Dr.
ills the famous inventor of ''Artifcial
prudence" as a courtiy phrase for the
CONFINEMENT of Geo III in his lunacy CDR
w. was the very Polonius of NJ. d 81; Sir
Benjamin BrOdie, the adviser of Lord
Denman; DR.. Hunter, who was in waiting
as FIRST Usher to the "FIRsT GENTLEMAN
in Europe" Geo ~ y have come down to
us from a former generation BECAUSE they
had tho good fortune to be called in by
illustrious patients, and not of any actual
superiority to many of their less celehrat-
ed brethren. Could we not do something
to establish the just comparative claims to
reputation of the members of this great
and useful profession by establishing an
international Academy of Honor, some
hing like the Academy of ''The Forty
Immortals" in France, each civilized ma
ton being entitled to a certain number of
members9
An Alvarado leap in thought! Butler,
in setting forth 1.-The passing WORTH of
Sir Hudibras, tells us
"'Tis known he could speak Greek,
AS naturally as pigs squeak"
Quite probably our poet does not mean
to refer to any naturalness of the pigs in
squeaking Greek, for their only hellenic
tendency Of which / am aware is their very
natural way of PRONOUNCING, "OI! Or! OI!''
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.
Two weeks ago II. F. NJ. asked informa-
ton concerning the author of
s.The steep where fame's proud temple shines
afar."
The Windsor Ledger answers that it oc-
ours in Beattie's Minstrel.
He also asked the author of ''The School
Master is Abroad"
The Windsor Ledger says that it emanat-
ed from the fertile brain of that versatile
genius Henry, Lord Brougham, a celebrat-
ed Statesman, jurist and litterateur of the
British Isle.
After answering the above, the Ledger